Today I'm posting the last excerpt from my upcoming book. In this chapter, called 'Spiritual First Aid', I list some simple tools or perspectives that are especially written for those moments when we feel anxiety related to our awakening and expansion.

"You Are Never Stuck: When we are in an unwanted situation, it often feels like we are imprisoned by circumstances and by our own negativity. Yet everything is so flexible in this universe, if we allow it. Your body is a mass of constantly changing particles – you are not a constant being. At times, it’s hard to believe that reality is not a fixed thing (because you can’t actually see the movement of the atoms with your bare eyes). It’s hard to believe, but freedom really is just a step away from anywhere. Take a small step towards relief, and then take another; because no matter how heavy or dark your feeling-state is now, you can shift it and it doesn’t have to take effort. If you are in a dark place, it might take a bit of time before you can feel love, joy, or gratitude. But it just takes one step to feel a bit lighter. To feel some relief, to feel the air in your lungs, to feel a thread of life flowing through you. The only reason why we fear being in any situation is because we believe we are stuck in it. Once you realize this is just a belief that you can cast out of the window, you are never stuck.

Allow Joy: Joy is a way of sensing and experiencingl ife, and unlike happiness, which is usually artificial and temporary, joy is the ever-present undercurrent pleasure of beingness experienced by Soul. Instead of trying to replace sadness and boredom with joy, consider viewing joy as an additional flavour to life, something that always exists alongside the human emotions. When I was integrating my stage-fright, I discovered that the most effective way to deal with that fear was joy: When I focused on the pure joy of acting and expressing myself, the fear slowly melted away. Joy is the natural state of the Soul, and it is always available to the master-self, no matter what experiences your human self is going through.

Don’t Hurry or Force Anything: Just because the majority of people in the Western world are obsessed with living busy, stressful, neurotic lives, doesn’t mean there is any good reason for hurrying through life. Indulge in each moment, and listen to the rhythm of your Soul. Everything flows more gracefully when we don’t force anything but follow the flow.

Enjoy Your Sensuality: Enjoying your senses is one of the fastest ways to transcend the limitations and obsessions of the mind. Spirituality & sensuality are not contradictions – the true nature of human spirituality is sensual. Probably you’ve been trained not to be sensual and you’ve learned that sensuality is somehow not pure. (This, of course, is nothing but mass hypnosis created a long time ago by religious organizations whom it benefited to have people feeling ashamed of their sensuality.) Embodied mastery is the sensual experience of divinity, which is then expressed through creation and celebration. Sensuality means feeling your experience without resistance. Therefore, feel with all of your senses, feel with an open heart and even feel with your imagination."

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Hello friends, today I'm posting an excerpt of an interview from my upcoming book, Getting Real About Enlightenment. The topic is: The Meaning of Spirituality, and the interviewee is Jean Tinder, one of eight awakened humans who share their awakening experiences in my book.

"Kim: Is there something else that you would like to share about spirituality and what it means to you?

Jean: For me, spirituality is my life. Even calling it ‘spirituality’ separates it, but for the sake of discussion it’s easier to use a term like spirituality. Nothing is valuable to me unless it’s practical, something I can apply it in everyday life. I grew up in a very religious family and even as a child I would see people spouting theology, but then do the nastiest things in their life, and I knew it wasn’t right. For me, it has to have practical value every day. It can’t be a segment of my life, like going to church on Sunday and being a jerk the rest of the week. That never made sense to me. When I go to town or go shopping, I’ll do conscious breathing. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the energies, and if I remember to breathe, it helps immediately. The state you’re in can shift in a breath, when you breathe and radiate. It’s not that you try to crowd out other energies; rather, it’s like if you’re a candle flame, all the incoming energies make your flame flicker, but if you’re a blowtorch, the wind isn’t going to affect it. So whatever worldly experience I’m in, whether meetings or grocery shopping or traveling or anything, I try to remember to breathe my own essence and my presence, and to open my feelings. It’s important to me to practice what I preach; to either make it real or shut up. It boils down to integration of all the parts and pieces of myself, all the aspects, and that’s not a one-time thing that can be managed or forced. It’s an ongoing process. When emotions show up, like fear, doubt anger at someone else, or any of this stuff that we think is ours and have a problem with, it’s nearly always aspects coming up to be integrated. So what I do is just be with the emotion, let it be there, feel it, and breathe it in.

"The state you’re in can shift in a breath, when you breathe and radiate."

In the last ten years, I’ve had some terrifying moments financially, like the rent being due in two days and no money, no food, all these hopeless situations. There’s so much fear and it’s easy to panic, but I finally realized how important it is to just be with that fear, allow it, and breathe it in. We so often try to hold it away from us, but when you allow it to be, you’re actually allowing an unintegrated aspect to come home, maybe one that’s been causing havoc and keeping you in poverty. I’ve learned to simply be with what is in myself, to not try to fix my anger or frustration or anxiety, but allow myself to feel it, to embody it within me, for that’s when the alchemy happens. That is true transformation, not just mental processing or forcing yourself to be different (which doesn’t work anyway). It’s hard to explain, but you choose to remember who you are. It may sound strange, but that has been one the most practical and transformational things I have done for myself, allowing the integration of the aspects that have been causing the problems. Be okay with whatever you’re feeling; there is nothing you’ll ever feel that needs to be fixed, and by simply allowing, the situation will find its resolution."

I hope you enjoyed today's excerpt, and feel free to share your own comments!